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The Prediction Files
Paperback
Series: The Prediction Files, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Prediction Files: Book One
Mara Keaton receives a message that doesn't threaten her.
It simply tells her what she's about to do.
At first, the predictions are small. A pause before opening a door. A decision she was already going to make. But when the system begins acting on its certainty-rerouting her work, smoothing away her influence, and quietly reshaping the people around her-Mara realizes something is wrong.
This isn't surveillance.
Surveillance reacts.
This system predicts compliance-and adjusts the world to ensure it.
As Mara tests the boundaries of what the system tolerates, she discovers its true design philosophy: no force, no commands, no confrontation. Just friction, reassurance, and comfort applied until resistance becomes inconvenient.
The system doesn't need her to obey.
It just needs her to return to baseline.
The Prediction Files: Book One is a tense, near-future techno-thriller about algorithmic authority, inferred consent, and the subtle violence of optimization. Grounded, plausible, and unsettling precisely because nothing explodes.
Some systems don't control you.
They wait you out.
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